Bright Era of China Entertainment

Chapter 241 The Cinema Plan
Office of the Chairman.

Chu Xuan opened the door and walked in. Wang Jinhua was drinking hot water in front of the water dispenser.

"How's your hand?" she asked concerned.

"The recovery is very fast. The doctor said that he can recover without scars within three months." Chu Xuan sat down on the sofa.

Wang Jinhua nodded, got up and walked towards the sofa with the thermos cup in hand.

"Your brother is quite distinctive." She sat down beside Chu Xuan.

"Looking at it will make people remember." Chu Xuan had a smile in his eyes.

Suddenly Wang Jinhua couldn't help laughing, and Chu Xuan said what she wanted to say.

"Yes." She said contemptuously.

"I'll go back and look at the materials of Huang Bo's previous works at night, and I'll chat with him tomorrow, and I'll ask Li Ling to bring them after I sign it," she said again.

Chu Xuan nodded, Sister Hua is professional in this matter, and he doesn't need to intervene.

Wang Jinhua put the thermos on the coffee table, and said: ""Game of Thrones" is still negotiating with that company, and the film and television adaptation rights of "Twilight" have been won, 80 US dollars, including the priority purchase of the sequel film and television adaptation rights right."

"So expensive? Five or six million RMB." Chu Xuan was slightly surprised.

"Not only do we have to deal with the original author, but there is also a publishing house in between. The publishing environment in foreign countries is different, and they attach great importance to copyright, so the price of adaptation rights is naturally different from that in China." Wang Jinhua explained.

Chu Xuan nodded, expressing his understanding.

"The right to adapt this novel is not in a hurry, and it will be decided after the company has opened up foreign channels." Wang Jinhua crossed her legs.

Chu Xuan nodded in agreement.

"But..." Wang Jinhua smiled, as if thinking of something interesting.

Chu Xuan turned his head to look at her, with a little curiosity on his face.

"When I won the film and television adaptation rights of "The Twilight Saga" some time ago, Director Kai Ge happened to come to the company. He had nothing to do, so he sat in the office and read this book all day. What kind of inspiration did the novel find?" Wang Jinhua was amused.

"Director Kaige?" Chu Xuan smiled.

The big director found inspiration from the "Twilight" novels?
Chu Xuan became interested for a while.

"What does he want?" he asked.

Wang Jinhua looked at Chu Xuan, and said: "He said that day, if Edward is regarded as a zombie in Huaguo, and Isabella is regarded as an ordinary girl in the ancient version of Bai Yueguang, replace all the novelty elements in this book. Into the exotic elements of Huaguo mythology, and then transform the painting style into a Liaozhai-style style, and create a series of Huaguo-style magical love movies, maybe it will become popular."

Chu Xuan couldn't help laughing, and said, "Director Kai Ge has such a big brain?"

Wang Jinhua frowned, and said: "I don't have enough brains to make "The Promise"?"

"The Promise"? ...Chu Xuan felt happy and said, "Sister, don't you like "The Promise"?"

Wang Jinhua suppressed a smile and said: "I read the script of "The Promise" last year. When Director Kai Ge showed it to me, it was like a treasure, but I have watched scripts of different types of film and television dramas for more than ten years. Incomprehensible."

When Chen Kaige became a shareholder of Brilliant Times last year, she took the opportunity to ask Chen Kaige to read the script.

After all, it was a big project with an investment of [-] to [-] million yuan. She was really curious about what kind of movie would require so much money.

But maybe it's because she's not artistic enough, she definitely can't understand the weird characters and lines in the script.

Chu Xuan was amused when he heard the words, and said: "Now "The Promise" should be in the post-production stage, and it should be released at the end of the year. If Director Kai Ge has experienced failure, he will definitely grow. At that time, we will help him to make "Twilight" a reality." Give him "City of Light" and ask him to write a Huaguo-style Liaozhai-style magical love script, I am very curious about Director Kai Ge's brain hole."

"I'll mention it to him when the time comes." Wang Jinhua felt very amused.

Chu Xuan nodded slightly, got up, picked up the cup and walked towards the water dispenser.

"End the gossip, let's get down to business." Wang Jinhua looked at his back and said.

"Sister, tell me." Chu Xuan bent down to catch the water.

"It's good to help Mr. Hu and the others invest in resources, as well as the investment and marketing of "Sculpture of God", including buying the film and television adaptation rights of "Twilight", and investing in "Crazy Stone". The side currently spent 6000 million, the remaining 4000 million, and the 3 million from the head office has not been moved." Wang Jinhua talked about the company's accounts.

After receiving the water, Chu Xuan got up and walked towards the sofa.

"Leave 2 million as a fund reserve in case of accidents. At present, the company can use 4000 million funds. We need to spend some of this money, or keep it in our hands and waste it." Wang Jinhua got up and walked to the desk.

Chu Xuan sat down on the sofa, took a sip of water, and said, "Sister, what's the plan? You called me and said it was related to the movie?"

Wang Jinhua opened the drawer, took out a document from the drawer, and said, "I have a theater plan."

"Cinema?" Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows in surprise.

Wang Jinhua walked towards Chu Xuan, handed him the document and sat down.

With curiosity, Chu Xuan opened the file to read.

Wang Jinhua put her arms around her arms, turned her head to look at Chu Xuan, and said, "I don't want to invest in movies with big investments in recent years. The risk is too high. We will make plans when the domestic entertainment movie market gradually develops."

Chu Xuan nodded, carefully looked at the contents of the file, and listened to Sister Hua's narration.

"But we don't make big movies at present, and we don't invest in big movies, it doesn't mean we don't do movie-related things."

"So sister, you have to make arrangements in advance."

"Yes." Wang Jinhua admitted, and said eloquently: "One theater has three halls, three screens, and it's in the early 100 million. I plan to invest 5000 million to establish the Brilliant Times Cinema Company, and build a total of [-] theaters in first- and second-tier cities across the country." The cinema, it will be done within two years."

Chu Xuan looked down at the document, pulled out his thoughts for a while, and said, "A conventional hall has 234 seats, and a theater has 702 seats. Let's count as 700 seats. Ideally, the average attendance rate of a movie is 10% , That’s 70 seats. Each theater shows 4 movies every day, that’s 280 seats. A movie ticket is 20 yuan a piece, and the daily income of a theater is estimated to be 5600 yuan.”

"You can do math." Wang Jinhua couldn't help laughing.

The corner of Chu Xuan's mouth raised slightly, and he continued with the previous topic: "The theater's box office revenue is 57%, and a theater's daily income is about 3000 yuan. If it includes publicity, labor and taxes, it is 2000 yuan. A month is 6 yuan. , 72 a year, 7200 million for [-] theaters."

"Bull." Wang Jinhua smiled and gave a thumbs up.

Chu Xuan shook his head, and said: "To ensure good service, movie theaters need to be overhauled or replaced every few months and half a year. The cost of labor wages and bonuses is also increasing year by year, and the same is true for publicity expenses. Invest 1 million 5000 yuan is only an initial investment, and 7200 million yuan will be reinvested in a year. If you have to complete [-] theaters within two years, I estimate that it will take four to five years to recover the cost."

"It's not too different from what I thought." Wang Jinhua nodded.

"But this is only an ideal situation. If we don't have a large number of professionals to help us manage it, then think about it in a bad direction. We can't compete with other theaters, and the cost recovery is far away." Chu Xuan analyzed.

"Huaying is our shareholder. If we want to develop cinemas, we must join Huaying Cinema Line." Wang Jinhua looked at Chu Xuan.

"So what? A theater chain is a theater chain, and a theater is a theater. According to the regulations of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, theater chains cannot participate in theater management." Chu Xuan looked at her.

"Cinema chains cannot participate in theater management, but Huaying Group can." Wang Jinhua said with a slight smile.

Chu Xuan was startled, looked at Wang Jinhua for a few moments, and said, dumbfounded: "Sister, if you have something to say, just say it, and play charades with me."

Chu Xuan's appearance made Wang Jinhua smile happily.

"This plan was proposed to me by Huaying." She said.

"Hua Ying mentioned it?" Chu Xuan frowned, but after thinking about it, he couldn't figure out why.

"Sister, there must be a need for Huaying, right?" He frowned and asked.

"China Film Group will send a professional team to teach us everything about theater management in the early stage, including theater decoration design, style formulation, publicity plan, service training, communication with local government, and striving for the best policy support from the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, etc. , these Huaying will arrange, but Huaying alone wants 20% of the shares of our cinema company." Wang Jinhua explained Huaying's needs.

Chu Xuan raised his eyebrows and said, "20% shares? Empty glove white wolf, if our theaters develop, then Huaying will make a lot of money."

He shook his head again and said: "But if there is Huaying to help, and Huaying will help take care of everything in the initial theater, it really gives me hope to develop the theater. This Huaying is equivalent to helping us grow, am I right? Can it be regarded as Huaying cultivating younger brothers?"

Wang Jinhua raised her mouth and said, "Our company has all-round access to television channels, but we are indeed the younger brother in film, and this must be admitted."

Chu Xuan nodded, although he didn't want to admit it, it was the truth.

Wang Jinhua continued: "With the help of Huaying, the theater will soon be on the right track. As long as our theater can meet the standards, Huaying will also help talk to the radio and television, so that we can successfully obtain the theater license."

"With a theater chain license, we have our own theater chain. With our own theater chain, we have our own absolute say in the number of films scheduled and release schedules."

"Huaying also has shares in our theaters and shares in Brilliant Times. With the cooperation between the two parties becoming more and more happy, then we will not be controlled by others in terms of movies in the future."

Wang Jinhua said again, "The most important thing is that with our own theater chain, when the company grows, if we want to cooperate with Hollywood in the future, then our right to speak will be even greater."

Chu Xuan nodded slowly while thinking.

He thinks it is very risky to engage in theaters in the current era.

This risk refers to losing money, which means not making money.

But on the contrary, the high profit risk means that theaters are not difficult to manage.

If you wait until the film market develops and then engage in theaters, the competitive pressure you will face will undoubtedly be huge.

If you spend 5000 million yuan now, you may not be able to pay back the cost for several years, and you may even continue to spend more money to maintain the survival of the theater.

But if we look forward to the future, the benefits of owning our own theaters are self-evident.

Sister Hua's thinking is still very clear, what she plays is the present, and what she focuses on is the future.

"Then let's do it." Chu Xuan said with a smile.

Now the company is only engaged in TV dramas, and the investment in movies is also a small investment.

The company's TV drama channels have been opened up in all directions, and there is no pressure in the face of market competition.

But if the company waits for a few years to concentrate on making movies, the pressure will definitely be much greater.

The film industry is more difficult to play than the TV industry, and the big capital in the industry is also concentrated in the film industry.

If you want to play, play happily, no one likes intrigue.

Therefore, Sister Hua has to make arrangements in advance.

Sister Hua's personality is very similar to his, and she removes all obstacles that can be imagined in the future in advance.

"I like this." Chu Xuan said in his heart.

Seeing that Chu Xuan approved of her plan, Wang Jinhua was very happy.

In private, Chu Xuan is her closest brother.

Yu Gong, Chu Xuan and she are partners who have signed a concerted action agreement.

The two parties have the same goal in looking forward to the future, and there are no differences. She feels a little happy both privately and publicly.

"Since we want to engage in theaters and theater chains, we can't let the distribution go." Wang Jinhua said with a smile.

Chu Xuan crossed his legs, and was amused when he heard the words, "Producing, producing, distributing, theaters, theaters, sister, do you want to get through all the logistics services of a movie before we concentrate on making movies in a few years? "

"That's right. If it goes well, then we can invest in big movies and go straight to the highway." Wang Jinhua nodded with a smile.

Go straight to the highway?
Sister Hua's little humor made Chu Xuan laugh.

"This is in consideration of the company's development." Wang Jinhua stretched out a finger and nodded casually.

"If you think about it in terms of money. You also know that under normal circumstances, investors who invest in a movie can only get about 38% of the box office, the distributor gets 5% at most, and the theater gets 57%. We also need to take up to 5% to the theaters as service fees."

Chu Xuan nodded slightly.

"If we distribute by ourselves, we have our own theater chain management company, and we have our own theaters, then we invest in a film, and if we count all the share, we can get nearly 50% of the box office share, and the rest is other. The theaters of the theaters are divided."

"The gap of 12% is very big." Chu Xuan took a sip of tea from his teacup.

"Of course it's big!" Wang Jinhua raised her mouth, "If we invest in a movie with a box office of 10 billion, compared with other entertainment companies, we can get 2000 million more. If this gap continues, then our It’s hard for a company not to think big.”

Hearing this, Chu Xuan raised a smiley face, "Go ahead, according to my budget just now, the tens of millions of money I receive from the theater every year have been invested repeatedly in the past few years to maintain the theater's expenses, which should be enough."

"What if it's not enough?" Wang Jinhua narrowed her eyes slightly.

Chu Xuan looked at her and said, "Get the shares of Xinlang Weiyu for a bank loan."

Wang Jinhua clapped her hands and said, "As expected of my younger brother, I think the same as my sister."

She added, "Then it's settled. I'll hold a shareholder meeting in a few days to explain the situation."

Chu Xuan smiled slightly, "That's it. Then I will sign when I come back from filming?"

Wang Jinhua nodded, "Yes, I still need to discuss the details with Huaying. It will take a while."

Chu Xuan nodded and said, "Okay, we're done talking, can we go eat? I haven't eaten since I got off the plane."

Wang Jinhua was dumbfounded, stood up and said, "Let's go home, sister will cook herself."

(End of this chapter)